Grown from those presented at a March 2006 conference on intercultural pragmatics held in Landau, Germany, these 15 papers use linguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive approaches to promote language c
Erika Hoff's LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT communicates both the content and the excitement of this quickly evolving field. By presenting a balanced treatment that examines all sides of the issues, Hoff helps
This comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of argumentation and debate uses a clear, concise, and engaging presentation that makes even complex material easy to understand. ARGUMEN
Identity Trouble brings together contributions from a wide variety of discourse fields to discuss the rising pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertain
Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. T
Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition examines representative texts and the theories of realism upon which they are based. It studies the foundations of these theories in the philosophies of l
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2006 book. Fusso (Russian language and literature, Wesleyan University) looks at Dostoevsky's portrayal of sexual orientation and discovery in several of his works. S
In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a
Pragmatics and Discourse: has been revised and reorganized to place more emphasis on pragmaticscovers the core areas of the subject: Context and Co-Text, Speech Act Theory, Conversation Analysis, Exch
Aims to bring together scholars writing from feminist perspectives within Critical Discourse Analysis. This book deals with texts and talk in domains ranging from parliamentary settings, news and adve
Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Se
Methods of approaching the study of discourse have developed rapidly in the last ten years, influenced by a growing interdisciplinary spirit among linguistics and anthropology, sociology, cognitive an
This volume investigates the linguistic development of children with regard to their knowledge of the verb and its grammar. The selection of papers brings to researchers and in particular psycholingui
Studies of language acquisition often assume that children will simply begin to learn language, without questioning what sets the whole process in motion. In How Children Learn to Learn Language, Lorr
In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures the inner life of a young girl, who is surviving in the brutal, totalitarian regime of a curiously unnamed South American country (most likely Argentina
This introduction to the Basque language is designed for the student or traveler seeking an elementary knowledge of Basque grammar and essential vocabulary for visiting the Basque country. Clear gramm
Positioning Gender in Discourse: A Feminist Methodology introduces a newly emerging approach to the analysis of talk. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA) offers a means of analyzing t
In this ground-breaking new book on the Norte?a and Sure?a (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and the
